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• Black Hawk Safety Net down

  Feb 08, 2010 - China Daily has reported that Chinese law enforcement officials raided a hacker training and resource ...

• Dave Marcus is ready for his Oscar

  Feb 08, 2010 - As a rule, we don’t do product plugs on this blog for obvious reasons. This ...

• Reduce Risk from Unauthorized Applications

  Feb 08, 2010 - Which software can you trust? There’s a lot of good in Web 2.0 technologies ...

• Amex Password Policies Declared Brain-Dead

  Feb 08, 2010 -  ...

• Distributing malware through Facebook

  Feb 08, 2010 - People ask me many times how are the bad guys using Facebook to distribute malware. ...

• Critical Control 8: Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges

  Feb 08, 2010 - Critical Control 8: Controlled Use of Administrative Privileges The “golden ticket” for attackers is administrative or ...

• Vitamin D Webcam Monitor Hits 1.0, Still Has a Free Option

  Feb 08, 2010 - Vitamin D, the Windows/Mac remote webcam monitoring software that we ...

• Watch out for flower-show.org

  Feb 08, 2010 -  We saw a pretty PDF file today (md5: 116d92f036f68d325068f3c7bbf1d535).It looks like ...

• worldrofwarcraft.com

  Feb 08, 2010 -  The World of Warcraft online game has over ...

• Phishing Pages Pose as Secure Login Pages

  Feb 08, 2010 - TrendLabs recently spotted a new phishing site spoofing CenturyLink’s secure login page from one of ...

Featured

• West Virginia Student’s info leaked through routine update

  Feb 03, 2010 - Around 53 West Virginia University students’ personal information was available to others following an "operational error" during a routine update of tax information Jan. 15. The students’ 1098-T forms, which include their Social Security number and tax identification numbers, among others, were uploaded to the University’s 1098-T Web site. The forms are distributed to WVU students who are U.S. citizens who paid tuition during the 2009 calendar year. They can be used to claim ...

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• HSU employee info possibly compromised after computer virus

  Jan 30, 2010 -  A Humboldt State University computer infected with a virus may have exposed the personal information of 3,500 people employed by the school between 2002 and 2006. HSU spokesman Paul ...

• Records With Personal Data Found Blowing in the Wind in Illinois

  Jan 29, 2010 -  Having worked in the banking industry for years, Elida Cruz routinely assured her clients that their personal information would remain confidential. So she was understandably horrified Thursday to learn ...

• Personal details of millions of Ladbrokes gamblers for sale

  Jan 29, 2010 -  The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is ...

• Private Data of 8,600 Canadian Teachers Compromised

  Jan 28, 2010 -  Laptops containing sensitive records belonging to thousands of Ontario teachers have been stolen, CBC News has learned. The three laptops contained names, addresses, birth dates and social insurance numbers ...

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